I have been working at IM Flash Technologies full-time (More than 8 years)

Recommends

Positive Outlook

Approves of CEO

Recommends

Positive Outlook

Approves of CEO

Pros

IM Flash, like many companies I've worked for, has core values: Teamwork, Execution, Commitment, Integrity. Unlike most companies, however, IM Flash does a great job of embodying the values. You really get a sense that management lives and upholds those values in all interactions.

Cons

It is a high stress environment. For the most part, the coworkers are great to work with, but even the most pleasant individuals can be hard to work with occasionally in such a high stress, high throughput environment

Advice to Management

One of IM Flashes parent companies is Micron where there was historically a time based or milestone based approach to promotions. IM Flash says they don't adhere to those guidelines anymore. Promotions are given based on merit. However, there is still a lingering number of managers that keep grasping to the old ways. In order to become a manager you must work in the fab as a shift employee, work as a process or equipment owner on a M-F day shift, and work as a supervisor on shift. If you skip any of those steps at IM Flash, you will have a very difficult path to management. It doesn't matter if you have leadership positions at other companies and certainly doesn't matter if you have taken any classes or an MBA to improve your leadership skills.

Working in the Fab you work four days one week and three days the next. This makes it great when you need to get things done in your personal life!

Cons

If you do get hired to work in the Fab, more than likely you will be scheduled to work graveyard - this is not fun, because you work 12 hr shifts. Makes it hard to adjust back to normal hours on your days off.

Advice to Management

Fab managers need to stop being so mean, people in the FAB are only human and have no control over how the machines run, we can only do what we can do. Previous CEO's loved their employees and treated them with respect! Now, management carry an invisible whip and crack it whenever something isn't going right! They need to lighten up and start treating employees with the same type of respect they want in return!

Can be stressful, in much smaller numbers but still some poor leaders, super bureaucratic - it takes a long time to change anything except on the actual product.

Advice to Management

Understand that you're not always communicating everything you think you are to employees. Small groups know and are excited about new technology but the majority are just waiting for something to happen.

I have been working at IM Flash Technologies full-time (More than 8 years)

Doesn't Recommend

Negative Outlook

Approves of CEO

Doesn't Recommend

Negative Outlook

Approves of CEO

Pros

days off competitive wages tuition assistance (as long as it applies to your job)

Cons

You will NEVER get promoted to leadership here. They've paid for my 3 degrees (One an MBA) and I've been here 9 years and OPERATORS (read: entry level) makes within 10/hr of what I do...pretty ridiculous. Although on the plus side, they say it's easy to move up, but you'll notice that people are pre-selected, fairly obvious but management is blind. EOE requires them to open positions but that doesn't stop them from picking their good ol' boy regardless of qualifications.

Advice to Management

Take a look at what your promotion system is like rather than being blinded by what you think works on paper. Good future leaders are leaving for "yes men"....bad habit to have.

Values are awesome. People are great, well educated and demand the very best of themselves and their team. Inspirational work environment. There is a lot that someone can learn in this company. Safety is number one on the list and it's reinforced throughout the organization. Communication from CEOs is very good. They're in style with the push for female engineers.

Cons

Advancement is practically non existent. There's an "old boys club" in some groups sometimes driven by the LDS culture, sometimes coworkers from previous jobs and sometimes because they're friends outside of work.

Advice to Management

Great communication, great Core Values, great environment and great tools to get the job done. Keep those in place; they make a difference. Do something about the turnover; listen to what's making people want to leave and act on it. We're losing good people for the wrong reasons and current feedback methods don't allow for anonymous, honest input. A manager knows immediately who submitted what comments in the annual surveys.

Summer interns participate in a team-building exercise at IM Flash. Throughout the summer interns will work on projects to improve how we manufacture our memory and will cap things off with a presentation on what they learned.